William Westmoreland Quotes
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.
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My next baby will be my new record.
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A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.
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When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail
